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This book was pretty heavy-handed, but then again, so are teenagers often. I felt like it was about 80% similes, which bothered me until I considered that maybe 15 year olds (or however old Esch is) need to compare new things they see with other things that are more familiar to them. The writing was effective in describing scenes; I winced at some of the graphic violence, and toward the end when I was completely submerged in the book, I had a hard time believing there wasn't a storm outside my w
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Though the story brought me to an interesting place, I remember being frustrated by the prose.
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